By Dominick Mezzapesa - Wildlife Planet News​Fact #1 - The Yulin Festival Has been Around a Long TimeThe Yulin dog meat festival has only existed since 2009. The Yulin festival was started in hopes of bringing in additional funds for the city.

The festival started growing in popularity with those who care less about eating dog meat, but rather they attended in order to protest the world view of this festival. In basic terms, this festival is attended mostly by non conformist looking to vent and be seen as a rebel against being told what they can do.

Fact #2 - Dog Meat is a 'Traditional' Chinese mealFor at least 7,000 years, archaeologists say, Dogs have been a part of Chinese households. The mythological ruler Fu Xi was said to have domesticated six wild animals: the pig, ox, goat, horse, fowl and dog, indicating that dogs were often kept even in ancient times.

In China's long history Dog meat was never considered a worthy meat. In ancient times offerings to the Gods were important and great attention to detail was given when any offering was presented. For the grandest of imperial ceremonies a cow or horse would be sacrificed, for less important occasions a pig or sheep, and the ordinary people would offer pork, chicken or fish. But the dog was almost never used, and it was regarded as disrespectful to the spirits to do so.

Fact #3 - There is no Law against Dog Meat in ChinaMany supporters point to Chinese law to claim that what they are doing is perfectly legal. It is true, there is no law against the eating of Dog meat, but, these supporters fail to point out that there are Chinese laws on the books that say is:

Any animal that is to be used at a food source must be quarantined for 7 days and also have papers proving where this animal is from

Since many of the dogs and cats eaten at the festival are stolen pets, that are driven to the festival and used the same day, they fail to comply with many of China's Exit Animal and Quarantine Law

Those attendees at the Yulin Festival who use the "No Laws Broken" excuse are wrong because, they are actually breaking most of the Animal meat health codes in China.

Fact #4 - Yulin is FilthyBeyond the slaughtering and the cruelty that takes place, there are serious health concerns with the dog meat served at the Yulin Festival.

These dogs and cats are tortured and that doesn't start when they arrive at Yulin. The torture starts when these dogs and cats are transported in small cages and the animal are crammed into cages in the most disgusting and upsetting way. The animal defecates onto the other animals that they are stuffed in the cage with them. The all quickly develop health issues from the lack of food, water and a clean environment.

These poor souls are slaughtered in often poorly maintained, filthy kitchens that have little government health department oversight. It's not hard to find a picture of one of these butchers, cooking a dog without a shirt, wearing a greasy, filthy apron, smoking a cigarette while chopping away on a table that is covered with blood and feces.

#5 - Dogs and cats are allowed to be raised and sold as 'Exit Animals.'As with most of the attendees excuses they fail to leave out a key componant.

While true there are farm, just like in the U.S.A. that raises animals to be 'Exit Animals' to be sold as meat. The one major difference is the fact that in the USA as well asd many other countries they can legitimately show where these animals were born and their histopry.

Since China has ZERO fams in all it's country that raises Dogs and Cats as 'exit animals' how can they possibly supply upwards of 25,000 dogs and 5,000 cats?

Many of the dogs are stolen or sold by illegal dog meat trade operators in other countries like Vietnam and India. Related Wildlife Planet Yulin Stories